Pounder-washer.



PATENTED JUNE 18, 1907.

R. HAYES. POUNDER WASHER. APPLmATIoN FILED m5111119, 19oe.

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PATENTED JUNE 18, 190'? R. HAYES. POUNDER WASHER. APPLIUATION FILED JUNE 19, 1906.

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'ing clot-hing, or other articles, using water i UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD HAYES, OF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.

PoUNDER-WASHER.

Speccaton of Letters Patent. Application filed June 19, 1906i Serial N0. 322,119.3.

- pivoted to an upright brace b, which ils l Be it known that I, RICHARD HAYES, a attached to the out-side oftub A; to the other resident ot Salt Lake City, Salt Lake county, i end of the yoke n, is attached a socket s, vState of Utah, have invented a new and usewithin which is fitted handle h. The trunful Improvement in Air-Pressure Washingnioned sleeve 7 is vertically adjusted and Machines, called a pounder-Washer, used held on the tube D, by a union 8, a ballf'bear- 1 for washing clothes, of which the following is i ing ring k10, and balls 12, thumb-screw t, A a speciiication. l' bar maybe used as a shaft, instead of the.'

My invention relates to the improvement l tube D. in washing machines that are used for wash- A lamp C is shown beneath the .machine for heating.

To (L7/Z whowt it may concern:

and air pressure, and the object' ot this invention, is to provide a machine, that can be operated by hand, or other motive power, and not require the constant attention of the operator. l attain these objects by the improvements shown in the accompanying `L'lrawings in which similar lett-ers of reference more readily understood by a description of theworking of the machine. Clothing to be' washed is placed in the tub, and Water supplied sufficient to cover them. The v"coni are placed ontop of the clothes, and t handle is adjustedvby the thumb-scre`w at indicate. like parts throughout the several r nearly right angles'to the tube D. The han- 7 5'v igures. dle is then raised, whereby the tube D, and

. lFigure 1. Is the side elevation. Fig. 2. pounders, are raised'and thelatter rotated by Is a plan view of thc washer. Fig. 3. Is a the lugl e, operatingwithin the spirally disvertical section online s, oi-Fig. 2. Fig. 1. Is posed slot 19.

atop view of the Washer belowv linem,a1, of Fig. If the cones are free from any entangle- Sq',

1. Fig, 5. ls an enlarged detail vertical secment with the clothes, they are given, by the tion of the actuating bar and its attachments. friction of the washer 3, the same motionas Fig. 6. Is an enlarged detail vertical section that imparted to the tube D, and are moved of the lower part ol" 'the vertical bar, llhub and around the tub. p lil/Then there is any con cap-nut. Fig. ls van ei'ilarged detail siderable entanglement of the cones with the 85 view ot the guide-ring, plate and lug. clothes, the cones do not rotate. vhen the r`he tub A, made oi suitable material, is 4'handle is lowered and the cones strike the provided with legs. .7, l, etc. with rollers l, r, iclothes, the 'friction of the clothes is greater etc., and iitted witha tight closing top B. than the friction oi: the nut 5, on the hub 9,

T hc top B has Well secured there on the workand the cones are forced down vertically, 9p

ing mechanism of the washer, that consists of without the axial turn, and each successive avert-ical bar or tube D, in which is cut a spistroke of the handle causes the @onesto 'rally disposed slot 19. A plate Gr, is securely strike at different places on the clothes, thus attached to the. top l5, one end of said plate covering and subjecting every part of the G, is shaped as a lug r, and fitted. to work in clothes in the tub to the air and water forced 95 through them by the cones.

Any means fit-heating the water ma)r be used, the one form shown being for a movable tub with legs. The top, tightly-closed it is, prevents the esc-ape of steam ,and roo heat and aids materially in the Washing. When it is desired to open the washer, the handle h, is raised so that the lug e, catches at the bottom ofthe spiral slot 19, and raises the top B; and the pivoted connecting barQ 1o 5 allows the, cones y1, 1, 1, and allthe inner operating-parts, to be turned back out of the'- tu Having thus described' my invention I the slot 19, also on the top B, is secured the center guide-ring 6. Near the lower end of said tube D, is placed. an adjustable hub 9, that is provided with spider-legs a, f1, 4, and on the lower end ot said spider-legs are firmly attached cones 1., 1, 1,. To the lower end of tube D, is iitted a threaded cap-nut 2, that carries a washer 3 made o'l` rubber, leather, or other material that offers some fric-tion to the hub 9. To retain the hub 9 near the washer 3, the tube D is 'litted with a threaded lock-nut 5.

Near the upper end o't tube D, a trunnioned sleeve 7, is fitted around tube D, and pivotedwithin a yoke n, one side ofgwhich is provided with a joint i, and is held by abolt a, to a connecting bar Q; the said bar Q 1s Patent An upright cylindrical. tub, provided with The purposes of the several parts malsv be= l i claim as new and desire to secure by Letters x lo top carrying a guide-plate, and a luie,r fitted the hub provided with a multiple of rojeotto operate Within a, sprally disposed slot in a ing mmh@ and cones, with means for mating 1o laterally reciprocatin r and axially rotating tlm Water in said tub, as and for the 'purposas bar, Garrying near tlle upper end a, trun described..

5 nionqd sleeve,-.ftted with a union, and a, ball RICHARD HAYES beati-hg ring with balls-with a set screw; said Witnesses: 1 bar'prvvded-Wtha cap-nut, and carrying a G. B, BLAKELY,

i Washer and a. hub tted near the lower end; SAM RANEY. 

